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WILSON, James Jefferson, senator, born in Essex county, New Jersey, in 1775; died in Trenton, New Jersey, 28 July, 1824. He received a common-school education, was for many years clerk of the New Jersey legislature, of which he was a member in 1809-'11, and edited the "True American" at Trenton. He was also adjutant-general of the state in 1810-'12 and 1814, and captain of a company of infantry in service on the coast of New Jersey during the war of 1812-'15. He was elected to the United States senate, and served from 4 December, 1815, till 1821, when he resigned on being appointed postmaster at Trenton. He sat in the legislature in 1822, and in December of that year he sustained severe injuries while he was delirious from illness.
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